New Directions Publishing
Novels, SS, Non-fiction, Bio, Memoir, Poetry
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*Full Disclosure: New Directions does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. We decided to include them because New Directions is the stuff of legend. Remember, no unsolicited “manuscripts” doesn’t mean you can’t send them a query.
About New Directions Publishing
New Directions was founded way back in 1936 when James Laughlin, then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. “I asked Ezra Pound for ‘career advice,'” James Laughlin recalled. “He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do ‘something’ useful.”
New Directions was born. Early writers incorporated in these anthologies include Dylan Thomas, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Thomas Merton, Denise Levertov, James Agee, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
New Directions later broadened their focus to include writing of all genres, representing not only American writing, but also a considerable amount of literature in translation from modernist authors around the world. New Directions also published the early work of many writers including Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, and Tennessee Williams was published as a poet for the first time in a New Directions poetry collection.
New Directions Publishing Submissions
New Directions can no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts.
“We simply do not have the resources to properly assess the enormous amount of work submitted to us. New Directions is understaffed and we need all our resources to continue to publish books. We wish we could manage to read all the unsolicited manuscripts with the care that they deserve, but we cannot. We will make an effort to answer all brief queries, but please bear with us as we try to respond.”
Contact: editorial@ndbooks.com
Meet the Editors
Barbara Epler (Publisher) Barbara joined New Directions as an editorial assistant after graduating from college in 1984. She became editor in chief in 1995; named Publisher in 2008, and in 2011 became president.
Declan Springis (Executive Vice President, Senior Editor) Declan has been working at New Directions since 1991.
Tynan Kogane (Editor-in-Chief) Tynan was raised in Seattle and graduated from the New School.
Meet the Authors
Walter Abish – Walter was born in Vienna but fled from the Nazis to Italy and later to Nice with his family while still a young child. They settled in Shanghai for most of the 1940s, and then relocated to Israel in 1949, where Abish served in the army and developed an interest in literature and writing. He moved to the United States in 1957 and became an American citizen in 1960. He’s taught at several universities in the US, served on the International PEN board, and has won Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships
Doon Arbus – Doon was born in New York City and never really left. The author of six nonfiction books, she makes her debut as a novelist with The Caretaker. She is also a freelance journalist: in her reportage work, she frequently wrestles with the hidden codes in a subject’s spoken language, its hesitations and reversals, allowing what the speaker seeks to obscure to become the revelation. Two of her nonfiction books, co-authored with longtime collaborator Richard Avedon, integrate her text and his photographs to craft a collision of words and images into single labyrinthine narratives.
Ana Luísa Amaral – Winner of the Premio Reina Sofía for Poetry, Ana Luísa Amaral was born in Lisbon, in 1956. She was highly acclaimed not only for her poetry, but also for her plays, children’s books, books of essays, and a novel. She was widely regarded as the finest translator into Portuguese of Emily Dickinson and William Shakespeare. Her books have been translated into many languages and her awards include the Premio Internazionale Fondazione Roma and the PEN Prize for Fiction. In 2019, New Directions published her What’s in a Name to rave reviews and forthcoming is her new work, World.New Beacon Press
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